Towards understanding bugs in open source router software

  • Authors:
  • Zuoning Yin;Matthew Caesar;Yuanyuan Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA;University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Software errors and vulnerabilities in core Internet routers have led to several high-profile attacks on the Internet infrastructure and numerous outages. Building an understanding of bugs in open-source router software is a first step towards addressing these problems. In this paper, we study router bugs found in two widely-used open-source router implementations. We evaluate the root cause of bugs, ease of diagnosis and detectability, ease of prevention and avoidance, and their effect on network behavior.